HEALTH COACH - Malaria disappears from 15 Indian states over the next three years

HEALTH COACH -

 Malaria disappears from 15 Indian states over the next three years   
 
 
 New Delhi: According to a statement issued by the government, At least 15 states in the country In three other years, i: e by 2020. 
 "By 2020 we will be able to eliminate malaria from 15 states with an annual parasite incidence (API) of less than one case per thousand population." We are sure to eliminate Malaria of these states by 2020, "Dr. AC Dhariwal, Director of the National Vector Borneo Disease Control Program (NVBDCP) at the Ministry of Health, told PTI 
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 He claimed that states such as Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu and Kerala and the union territories, including Daman and Diu, Lakshadweep and Puducherry, would be free of malaria. 
 However, he mentioned some districts in areas of risk of malaria transmission in the Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura areas as risk malaria. 
 "The API in some of these areas is more than two per thousand people. In some areas, the scenario is worse than more than ten," he said. 
 In fact, some districts in West Bengal were considered at risk areas where the API was two per thousand, he said. 
 "Some districts of Meghalaya and Tripura having borders with Bangladesh are also places where malaria is still a threat," Dhariwal said. 
 The overall situation in India, however, has improved over what it was over the last century, he said. 
 "There has been a decline not only in the number of cases of malaria incidence but also in the number of deaths due to the disease. This is mainly due to the efforts of the Balthent tests Rapid Diagnostic Test (RTD), "he said. . 
 (With PTI entries)